Jacopo Volpe. Who knows him?!! This is
the name of someone who tries to spread the fixed gear passion.
DODICI and Jacopo belong to each other like L´Eroica and the white
roads of Tuscany. He is a head of DODICI cicli and manufactures
cycles in a modern way.
„DODICI
cicli is a small brand born from passion to feed passion, we needed
something that was not available and so we created it. We needed
transportation. We needed transportation designed for us and designed
for our cities. We needed simple bicycles with no need for
maintenance, no noise in the graphic, plain colors. Everything that
is possible to clean out the bicycle we cleaned. We took away the
gears. Milano is a flatland. We took away the brakes, who need brakes
when you can have fixed gears?” - DODICI Cicli Milano.
WE
(FMGX Crew) are proud to proclaim you one of our “Rebels without a
break” series support DODICI Cicli Milano. You can talk a lot about
geometry of frames, materials used to build up the frame, colour
scheme you prefer and so on. But we don´t want to start a discussion
about fundamentals. If you talk about DODICI you talk about passion
and dedication. So we used the moment and asked Jacopo just ONE
question.
“What
kind of circumstances makes you to create one of the world famous
brand DODICI cicli?”
“I
started DODICI in 2006 because I come from a DIY background, had a
punk HC label before, and I needed a bike, my friends needed bikes as
well and at the time it was difficult to find fixed gear bikes in
Italy. We all had very cool vintage steel bikes but they where too
fragile for the everyday use and abuse.
These
where very funny days, riding a lot and having hard time convincing
old italian framebuilders to build strange track frames made for
going around town with no brakes. They thought we where completely
insane. That was long before the whole trend exploded in europe.
The
first time I have seen a track bike was in 1999 in NYC, where I met
some punks that where messengerrs, going to shows and riding
bicycles, that made me want a bicycle like theirs.”
Hopefully
we made you to catch the fire of the DODICI star and are looking
foreward to see you in Greifswald from 19th to the 21st of June.
Yours,
FMGX Crew
